Writer, author Travel Writing 2.0 & A Better Life for Half the Price. Editor perceptivetravel.com & CheapestDestinationsBlog.com

Joined March 2009
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20 Jul 2025
Since a few people asked me lately... No, we're not on Twitter anymore. Like the CEO who couldn't handle all the hate, we've left the building. The new unofficial t-shirt for this sad social network available at Amazon here: amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/…
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10 Nov 2024
I am done. Twitter used to be fun. Now it is just a sad shell run by an immoral a-hole. Come find me at Threads as globetrots -- same as IG.
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28 Oct 2024
Solutions for Onward Ticket Requirements rfr.bz/t50b4f1

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28 Oct 2024
Beware if you have a cash account with @Fidelity -- with no warning my transferred deposits have been locked up for 2 weeks and customer service says too bad, it's because of "internal fraud issues"
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25 Oct 2024
Bad idea to use the @PayPal debit card for travel: they charge a fee on top of a fee for "foreign transactions" even if it's dollars in a country that uses USD! Found out the hard way and shared in the Nomadico Newsletter this week.
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21 Oct 2024
Ouch. "Many Cubans have had enough. More than 1 million people, 10% of Cuba’s population, left the country between 2022 and 2023, Cuba’s national statistics office found." Via @MorningBrew
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15 Oct 2024
Today's the last day to sign up with NATJA as a travel content creator and get a free entry into the annual awards. Put my name in the referral box and I'll buy you a beer when I see you! NATJA.org

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Props to @adventuretweets and @VisitPanama for having an indigenous Guna speaker at the Adventure Travel World Summit. #atws2024
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It's not going to cost you a lot to go out in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
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30 Sep 2024
Why do NYC PR people regularly blast out event invites to writers who don't live anywhere near there? It's not hard to refine your pitch list with public info. (And lazy not to.) #prfail
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28 Sep 2024
Let me show you around my adopted country of Mexico in January: cheapestdestinationsblog.com…
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17 Sep 2024
DONALD TRUMP IN 2020: "If Biden's elected, the stock market will crash ... it might even be a 1929 situation." REALITY:
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If you are a publisher, especially one that has been knocked down by Googlegate, why are you rewarding the company by doing all your searches through them? travelwriting2.com/why-are-y…
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17 Sep 2024
Avoiding Crowds When You Travel: Beyond Overtourism cheapestdestinationsblog.com…
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11 Sep 2024
I think in my drunkest moments I have been more coherent and collected than the senile old failure who couldn't stick to a train of thought tonight. #VoteBlueToStopTheStupid
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When you're lying to your mom but your brother already told her the truth.
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